Improvement in ticket-holders



JOHN B. PORTER & THOMAS REECE.

Ticket Holder.

No. 123,360. Patented Feb. 6, 1872.

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JOHN B. PORTER AND THOMAS REEOE,

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OF PHILADELPHIA PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN TICKET-HOLDERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 123,360, dated February 6, 1872.

SPECIFICATION.

We, JOHN B. PORTER and THOMAS REEcE, of the city of Philadelphia and State of Penn sylvania, have invented certain Improvements in Holders for Fare Receipts for City Passenger Railways, Omnibuses, 850.

The invention consists in a slip-rin g provided with one or more cutters, so that as passengers pay their fares the conductor may expeditiously detach tickets from the ring, which are vouchers that the fares have been paid.

In the accompanying drawing, which makes a part of this specification, Figures 1 and 2 are views, at right angles to each other, of the ring A, receipts B, and hanger or yoke 0. Fig. 3 is a side view of the ring A. Fig. 4 is a crosssection at the line 00 m of Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a face view of the ordinary receipt, which indicates a fare has been paid, 850. Fig. 6 is the reverse side of the same, having a business card.

Like letters in all the figures ,indicate the same parts.

A is a ring, which is represented in detail in Figs. 2 and 3. B, B, B,&c., are card or paper 1 receipts, each of which has the name of the company on one side and the announcement that one fare has been paid, and on the reverse 1 side an advertisingcard. The wire whichforins i theringAhas an eye, a, at one end, and ahook,

b, at the other end that engages in the eye to 1 close the ring. The receipts B are each prowided with a hole, (Z, near the edge, by means of which it is connected with the ring. 0 is a yoke or hanger, which is connected with the eye a of the ring A, as seen in Figs. 1 and 2. The conductor connects the ring provided with receipts, as represented, with a button-hole of his coat or vest by passing the pin f through the same and springing it into the clasp 1). The yoke is not indispensable, as the ringmay be connected with the button-hole without it.

The Operation.

The conductor, as he takes a fare from a passenger, draws the ticket against a knife-edge, h, of the ring A to separate it from the ring, whereby it is canceled before being given to the passenger.

What we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The ring A, having one or more cutters, h, for the purpose specified.

In testimony that the above is our invention we have hereunto set our hands and aflixed our seals this 21st day of June, 1871.

JOHN B. PORTER.

[n s] THOMAS REEOE.

Witnesses THOMAS J. BEWLEY, STEPHEN USTICK. 

